[Haskell-cafe] Re: multi-core programming in Haskell

Galchin, Vasili wrote:

Thank you Murray. My post was not so clear .... I was referring to "automatic" parellelization vs "manual" parallelization. By "automatic" I mean the programmer doesn't have to indicate where to parallelize ... instead the compiler decides how to parallize!

Not on the horizon, it's too difficult. The best effort I know of automatically introduces par to the code /after running/ the program a few times (with the same given input data). There was some paper somewhere describing the idea and what the results were (IIRC, they achieved a respectable speedup in cases where there was enough potential for parallelization). Note this is /not/ something a compiler could do. Cheers Ben